Word: minis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...paying fans who came out to the Idaho State University "Mini-dome" in Pocatello recently for the I.T.A.'s single dress-rehearsal meet saw more than amateur theatrics. The abbreviated twelve-event format was, as the promoters put it, "sequentially choreographed," eliminating the usual clutter caused when two or three events are staged simultaneously. When Pole Vaulter Bob Seagren bounded his way to an easy victory over three opponents by reaching 17 ft. 6 in., the audience was not distracted by competition in the mile run. Another I.T.A. innovation was pacer lights; spaced every ten yards along the track...
...m.p.h. mini-dragster called "the Hud." It looks deceptively like a 1973 Camaro. But, lightened by a fiber-glass body and fueled by explosive nitromethane, the car can streak down a quarter-mile from a standing start in 6½ seconds. To achieve that flash of glory, two Chicago pipefitters labored five hours a night, putting together the right combination of engine, transmission and body. "Your car not only has to run fast, it has to look good," says the Hud's wrench (chief mechanic), Tom Jordan, 33. "If your $1,500 paint gets chipped, that...
...remembered, along with Ernie Kovacs' excursions beyond the pale, as the best and funniest work ever done for TV. Yet memory is a fun-house mirror There is always a nagging doubt when gazing into it: Were things really that good? Yes, they certainly were, as this mini-anthology resoundingly proves...
...necessity, much of what Chapin has done since then has consisted of filling in outlines sketched by Gentele. But Chapin's personal signature has begun to appear. After Gentele's death, the Met board and staff assumed that plans for a Mini-Met (see previous story) would have to be put off for a year. It was Chapin who pushed for an opening this season, insisting "It is time for the Metropolitan once again to become a leader and not a follower." The informal "lookin" rehearsal performances for students that Chapin inaugurated were Gentele's idea...
...world's greatest all-round athlete? ABC-TV and sundry promoters went through the motions of finding out last week by staging a kind of mini-Olympics called "The Superstars." Ten top professional athletes were invited to compete in any seven of ten events, excluding their specialty. In return each competitor received an $8,500 chunk of real estate in a new Florida resort community called Rotonda West and a chance at $122,000 in prize money...